Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would a comparison of Current Affairs Test scores be practicable or advisable? Herewith are my scores on the four tests so far; I should be interested in knowing what others report...
...walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each week they report to have their shoews inspected...
Soon as Mr. Morgan was at home, Dr. Denny, who accompanied him from Boston, turned him over to his personal physician, Dr. Everett Colgate Jessup. They, the Morgan family and the 17 Morgan Partners feared false rumors. Junius Spencer Morgan acknowledged the report of his father's heart attack. But, declared he: "Reports of his being paralyzed are entirely erroneous. He has suffered a slight upset and doctors have prescribed a rest. The worst is over. He is rapidly getting better. ... I believe he will go abroad. He usually does so at this time of year anyway...
...Federal Reserve upped margin requirements from 45% to 55%. They protested that the requirement was too steep, that it would throttle investment buying along with speculation. Politely the Reserve Board invited the New York Stock Exchange to survey effects of the new ruling. Last week the Exchange completed its report, sent it to Washington without comment. On the basis of three samplings, a month apart, it appeared that about one-third of all margin accounts were "restricted" (i. e., frozen). These restricted accounts also represented one-third of all securities held on margin, indicating that freezing was not peculiar...
Nucleus of the Kreuger enterprises, the originally honest construction business of Kreuger & Toll had become by 1932 nothing but a holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...